Ironing board

ABSTRACT

An ironing board comprising an elongated board-like member having a planar upper surface for supporting articles to be ironed and a planar under surface having a plurality of recesses formed therein. A plurality of interconnected supporting strutlike members retractably accommodated in the recesses of the under surface of the board-like member in a manner whereby in one position of the strut-like members they extend away from the board-like member and cooperate with each other to support the board-like member in a horizontal plane spaced above a supporting surface, and in another position of the strut-like members they are retracted into the recesses and present a uniplanar under surface of the board-like member.

United States Patent 1 Casey IRONING BOARD James F. Casey, Woodside, NY.

[73] Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization,

Inc., New York, N.Y. a part interest 22 Filed: Aug. 12, 1974 21App1.No.:496,443

[75] Inventor:

[4 1 July 8,1975

Primary Examiner-Geo. V. Larkin Attorney, Agent, or FirmDanie1 Jay Tick5 7] ABSTRACT An ironing board comprising an elongated board-like memberhaving a planar upper surface for supporting articies to be ironed and aplanar under surface having a plurality of recesses formed therein. Aplurality of interconnected supporting strut-like members retractablyaccommodated in the recesses of the under surface of the board-likemember in a manner whereby in one position of the strut1ike members theyextend away from the board-like member and cooperate with each other tosupport the board-like member in a horizontal plane spaced above asupporting surface, and in another position of the strut-like membersthey are retracted into the recesses and present a uniplanar undersurface of the board-1ike member.

1 Claim, 3 Drawing Figures FIG.

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IRONING BOARD DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relatesto an ironing board.

Objects of the invention are to provide an ironing board of simplestructure, which is inexpensive in manufacture, is utilized withfacility and convenience, is fully retractable to a substantially planarcondition so that it may be supported on a substantially flat surfacewith its supporting members retracted or supported, stored in a minimumspace and handled with facility and convenience.

In order that the invention may be readily carried into effect, it willnow be described with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. I is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the ironing board ofthe invention with the supporting members extended:

FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the embodiment of FIG. l with the supportingmembers retracted; and

FIG. 3 is a sectional view, taken along the lines III- III, of FIG. 2.

In the FIGS, the same components are identified by the same referencenumerals.

The ironing board of the invention comprises a substantially elongatedboard-like member 1 having a substantially planar upper surface 2 forsupporting articles to be ironed and a substantially planar undersurface 3 having a plurality of recesses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ll, 12,13 and 14 formed therein.

A plurality of interconnected supporting strut-like members 15, l6, l7,I8, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 are retractably accommodated in therecesses 4 to 14 of the under surface of the member 1. Thus, in theextended position of the strut-like members 15 to 24, said strut-likemembers extend away from the member 1 andcooperate with each other tosupport the member 1 in a substantially horizontal plane spaced above asupporting surface 25, as shown in FIG. I.

In the retracted position of the strut-like members 15 to 14, as shownin FIGS. 2 and 3, said members are retracted into the recesses 4 to 14and present a substantially uniplariar under surface of the member 1.

While the invention has been described by means of a specific exampleand in a specific embodiment, I do not wish to be limited thereto, forobvious modifications will occur to those skilled in the art withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

I. An ironing board, comprising a substantially elongated board-likemember having a substantially planar upper surface for supportingarticles to be ironed and a substantially planar under surface having aplurality of recesses formed therein; and plurality of interconnectedsupporting strut-like members retractably accommodated in the recessesof the under surface of the board-like member in a manner whereby in oneposition of the strutlike members they extend away from the board-likemember and cooperate with each other to support the board-like member ina substantially horizontal plane spaced above a supporting surface andin another position of the strut-like members they are retracted intothe recesses and present a substantially uniplanar under surface of theboard-like member.

1. An ironing board, comprising A SUBSTANTIALLY ELONGATED BOARD-LIKEMEMBER HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR UPPER SURFACE FOR SUPPORTINGARTICLES TO BE IRONED AND A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR UNDER SURFACE HAVING APLURALITY OF RECESSES FORMED THEREIN; AND A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTEDSUPPORTING STRUT-LIKE MEMBERS RETRACTABLY ACCOMMODATED IN THE RECESSESOF THE UNDER SURFACE OF THE BOARD-LIKE MEMBER IN A MANNER WHEREBY IN ONEPOSITION OF THE STRUT-LIKE MEMBERS THEY EXTEND AWAY FROM THE BOARD-LIKEMEMBER AND COOPERATE WITH EACH OTHER TO SUPPORT THE BOARD-LIKE MEMBER INA SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE SPACED ABOVE A SUPPORTING SURFACE ANDIN ANOTHER POSITION OF THE STRUT-LIKE MEMBERS THEY ARE RETRACTED INTOTHE RECESSES AND PRESENT A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIPLANAR UNDER SURFACE OF THEBOARD-LIKE MEMBER.